Chapter 424: An Ancient Temple Built in the Tang Dynasty
Speaking of the morning in Damiaozi Town, there is actually nothing to choose from, because there are only a few things.
Not far to the right of the guest house, there is a small restaurant specializing in breakfast, and Qiu Weijia led everyone there.
"Xiao Qiu, do you have any delicious breakfast here?" Pang Lizhen asked with a smile.
Qiu Weijia said: "Sister Pang, in fact, there are no tricks, just fried dough sticks, baked cakes, steamed buns and spicy soup. The most amazing thing is the spicy soup we have here, drink a bowl in winter, ensure that you are full of fire, very comfortable, and keep warm that is the best. ”
Everyone followed him and walked a short distance away, it was already past eight o'clock, and the business in the breakfast shop was very deserted, and basically no one would come to eat breakfast at this time.
The owner of the small restaurant is surnamed Mo, he is in his sixties, his body is tough, and his breakfast is the best in the whole Damiaozi Town.
Qiu Weijia led people to the door of the store and shouted inside: "Mo Er, you have come to business, do you still have anything to eat?" ”
When Old Man Mo saw such an adult, he hurriedly greeted him, "Everyone, please." Qiu boy, there are still things, it's hot. ”
There were only four tables in the store, and Qiu Weijia walked in with Huo Danjun and his party.
"Don't dislike it, just sit down."
The crowd divided into two tables, as she had said.
"Boy Qiu, what do you want to eat?" Mo Lao Er was overjoyed, and stepped forward to ask.
Qiu Weijia said: "Mo Er, these are distinguished guests from other places, take out your unique skills, whatever is in the store, it must be hot, you first serve a bowl of spicy soup to each of us." ”
"Okay."
Old man Mo answered, humming a small tune and getting busy.
Qiu Weijia said to everyone: "Everyone, this spicy soup in our town is not ordinary, you can take a look." ”
Everyone looked at Old Man Mo and saw a large cauldron beside him, with half a pot of soup left in it. Wood was burning in the stove at the bottom of the pot, and the hot air spread, and the whole shop was very warm. Old man Mo took out an egg from the basket next to him, pinched it in his hand and knocked it on the edge of the pot, beat the egg into a porcelain bowl with two blue lines on the side, picked up the chopsticks and quickly stirred them in the bowl.
Qiu Weijia said: "Everyone, look at the egg that Mo Lao Er beat just now, it's not big, because it is the egg laid by our local domestic chicken, which is much more nutritious than the meat eggs bought on the market." ”
Old Man Mo stirred for a minute, picked up the big copper spoon in the pot, scooped a spoonful of soup and poured it into the bowl, and then took the soup and put it in front of Qiu Weijia.
Qiu Weijia pushed the bowl in front of Huo Danjun and said with a smile: "Team Huo, you taste it first." ”
Huo Danjun didn't drink the soup immediately, but observed.
This spicy soup is thickened with flour and looks a little sticky, and there are shredded kelp, shredded chicken, and egg drops, and the tiny black dots in the soup are peppers.
Qiu Weijia said: "This pot of soup is boiled with three old hens, and some kelp shreds and shutters are added to it, which everyone can see with the naked eye." In addition to these, there are also some that you don't see much, such as angelica, ginseng and many other nourishing Chinese medicinal materials. Old man Mo started to boil the soup at two o'clock every night, and it took three or four hours to boil, and the soup was very delicious. ”
Huo Danjun listened to the direct saliva ・ "I'm sorry big guy, I'll take a sip first." ”
As soon as I took a sip, I gave a thumbs up, "It's really delicious, it's spicy, and my whole body will immediately warm up after taking a sip." ”
At this time, Old Man Mo brought another bowl of soup, and after a while, everyone had a bowl of soup in front of them. Huo Danjun has traveled to the north and south, seen a lot of the world, and eaten a lot of snacks from all over the world, but he didn't expect to be able to drink such a delicious soup in Damiaozi Town, and he felt surprised and very lucky. …,
"Xiao Qiu, when the resort is completed, I will guarantee that your spicy soup will be popular, and someone will buy a bowl for twenty yuan." Zhong Yunan said.
Qiu Weijia sighed: "This spicy soup tastes beautiful, but the process is complicated and time-consuming, so except for Mo Lao Er, I basically don't make it anywhere else." If Mo Lao Er leaves, maybe the skill of making this soup will be lost. ”
Zhong Yunan said: "The most important thing for a place to attract tourists is to have characteristics, what are the characteristics? It's the culture, it's the scenery, and it's the food! If you have one of these three, you can be popular, and if you have all three, it will be difficult to think about it. ”
Qiu Weijia raised his head and smiled at Old Man Mo, "Second Brother Mo, did you hear that?" Take care of your body, work hard, and you'll be rich in a few years. When the time comes, this soup is twenty yuan a bowl, and you calculate how many bowls you sell a day and how much money you can earn a day. ”
Old man Mo laughed and said, "Don't dare to think, don't dare to think." ”
His spicy soup is now sold for five cents a bowl, and this price has not changed for seven or eight years, so how dare he imagine that a bowl of soup for five cents will become twenty yuan a bowl in a few years? My good man, if that were the case, one bowl would be worth selling forty bowls now!
Old Man Mo didn't even dare to think about it at the moment, but a few years later, such a thing did happen. At that time, he limited the supply of one pot a day, about one million, and each bowl was sold for fifty yuan, and there were still people queuing up every day in the dark.
At that time, people who came to Damiaozi Town for tourism, if they could drink a bowl of old man Mo's spicy soup, it would be worth showing off. If you can't drink it, you will leave a big regret for your trip. In order to be able to return without regrets, some people even queued up for four or five days in a row, and finally tasted what they wanted.
After the soup was ready, Old Man Mo sent the steaming buns, with chicken sauce and fresh meat filling, tofu filling, and green vegetables and mushroom filling, each bun was filled with large filling and thin skin. Mo Lao Er called his wife out and asked her to fry fried fritters, while he started to make baked cakes.
After kneading the dough, take a small piece and stretch it into a long strip, sprinkle it with sesame seeds, and stick it in the stove, and it will be cooked quickly.
It was rare for everyone to eat such a delicious snack, and each person drank at least two bowls of spicy soup. They all ate sweaty and praised this spicy soup.
After breakfast, Qiu Weijia settled the bill, and the eight people ate so many things, and it was less than forty yuan. This is already a big business for Old Man Mo at this moment. When Old Man Mo took the money from Qiu Weijia, his face was full of joy, he would never have thought that a few years later, he would sell a bowl of soup for more than such a small amount of money.
One person left Old Man Mo's small restaurant, and Lin Dong led them to the back street. Along the way, the topic of everyone's conversation was still Old Man Mo's amazing spicy soup. In order to maintain their figure, Pang Lizhen and Sha Yunjuan have always been very concerned about their diet, and they don't eat too much at every meal, but they also broke their vows today, not only did they drink two bowls of spicy soup each, but also ate a lot of baked cakes and buns.
When I arrived in the back street, Qiu Weijia's words began to increase again, saying that there are many more interesting places in the back street than in the front street, and when I was in junior high school, I often ran here with Lin Dong to dig out the bird's nest. Talking about the interesting stories of the year, Qiu Weijia is endless, but fortunately, what he told is very interesting, and everyone is willing to listen.
Sha Yunjuan also said that Qiu Weijia didn't talk about cross talk, which was a pity.
Unconsciously, Qiu Weijia had already led everyone to the gate of the big temple. The big temple is located in the westernmost part of Houjie, two hundred meters away from the big temple there is no home, it can also be said that the big temple is not from the town, but it is relatively close to the town. …,
"Guys, we're here, this is the big temple in our town." Qiu Weijia said.
As soon as everyone arrived, they felt abnormal, and felt that the temperature here was several degrees higher than the place they had just walked through.
Zhong Yunan and Pang Lizhen are both engaged in geological research, and after feeling the abnormality of this temperature, they began to bend down to observe the ground.
Huo Danjun said: "Xiao Zhong, don't look at it, let's go in and have a look." ”
Zhong Yunan and his wife stood up and followed everyone to the temple.
There is a blue brick paved road in the temple, which leads directly to the main hall and the two plates of the road, which are towering ancient trees
The crowd entered the temple and stopped after a few steps. Qiu Weijia was puzzled and said, "Everyone, the temple is still inside." ”
Huo Danjun and his party looked at the ancient trees on both sides, and everyone paid attention to him.
"It's strange that none of these trees are evergreen, and it stands to reason that at this time, there shouldn't be any of them, so why is every tree here flourishing like it's in the middle of summer?" Pang Lizhen said to herself, everyone gathered around, and the thoughts in their hearts were the same as her, this phenomenon was too abnormal.
"Where there is an effect, there must be a cause!"
They all knew very well that this ancient temple was strange, and they felt it before they even entered.
Qiu Weijia was a little anxious, as soon as Huo Danjun came in, his feet seemed to be frozen, but he refused to go forward, walked in front of them, saw this group of people with strange expressions, and asked, "Everyone, is there something abnormal?" ”
Huo Danjun pointed to the ancient wood on the side of the road and said, "Xiao Qiu, do you see it, the branches are luxuriant." ”
Qiu Weijia nodded, "I know this, it's always been like this." ”
"It's always been like this, don't you think it's unusual?" Huo Danjun asked rhetorically.
Qiu Weijia was stunned for a moment, and then reacted, he was used to seeing this abnormal phenomenon, but felt that this was normal. The trees in front of me are flourishing when the trees outside are bare, which is too abnormal.
"Xiao Qiu, don't you people here ever feel abnormal?" Huo Danjun asked.
Qiu Weijia shook his head like a rattle, "Everyone seems to be used to it, I have never heard anyone say that it is abnormal." Team Huo, you are still amazing, you found out as soon as you came in, by the way, why is this? I'm curious. ”
Huo Danjun shook his head, "We haven't been able to find the reason yet, we are as curious as you. ”
Qiu Weijia said: "Since I can't find the reason for a while, it's better to go forward with me first, and I'll take you to the front to have a look, the temples are all in front." ”
Huo Danjun nodded and greeted, "Don't look at it, let's follow Xiao Qiu forward." ”
Everyone followed behind Qiu Weijia and walked forward step by step.
In the square in front of the main hall, an old man with white eyebrows was sweeping the fallen leaves on the square with a broom, and when he saw this person coming, he stopped what he was doing.
The monk in the big temple has a very sacred status in the minds of the people of Damiaozi Town, and people like Qiu Weijia also respect the monk very much, so he hurriedly stepped forward to salute.
"Master, these are all friends from afar, they are all very interested in the big temple and want to visit, is it okay?" Qiu Weijia asked respectfully.
The old monk clasped his palms together and said with a kind smile: "The convenience of monks and others is convenient for themselves, so please take care of yourself." ”
There was nothing of value in the big temple, and the old monk could see that this group of people was not that kind of rat, so he generously agreed. Now this season is not the time to offer incense and petition, so the big temple is quiet, except for Qiu Weijia and Huo Danjun and his party, there are only a few old monks in the temple left. …,
The common people of Damiao Town are not rich, and they will give a few yuan of sesame oil money at most when they are willing to make incense, and every year there will be people who come to incense when they celebrate the New Year's Festival, so the income of Damiao is not much, and the county and the town's finances are very difficult, so no one will think of allocating funds to repair the temple.
Several old monks in the temple were old and could not afford to repair it, so they could only let the temple fall. At present, more than half of the temples in the big temple have collapsed, and only the main hall is still relatively well preserved. Guo Tao and Sha Yunjuan's specialty is design, they both have an understanding of ancient and modern Chinese and foreign design styles, and the architectural style of the main hall is very in line with the temple architectural style of the Tang Dynasty, and they quickly saw it.
"This temple should have been built in the Tang Dynasty." Guo Tao began to give full play to his strengths, starting from the pillars of the main hall, and then talking about murals, Buddha statues, and the head of the story is the Tao, many of which are professional terms. Qiu Weijia was confused when he listened from the sidelines, it was strange that someone could see so many Taos from this dilapidated temple.
"These murals because of the age, but vaguely can be seen to pay attention to the color of the heavy color, which is in line with the majestic atmosphere of the great power of the Celestial Empire in the lobby, and then look at the characters on the painting, the women are plump, in line with the aesthetics of the Tang people, and the clothes of the people on the painting are tight sleeves and narrow mouths, very close-fitting, this is the style of Hufu Tang people like to wear Hufu, which is well known."
"This hall can exist for so long and has not collapsed, the level of architecture in the Tang Dynasty is really amazing, it is worthy of being the most powerful dynasty in the world at that time, whether it is economy, culture or various skills, it must be ahead of the world!"
Guo Tao was full of praise for the main hall, and he could see the buildings of the Tang Dynasty that were so well preserved and had not been processed by later generations, which alone was enough to make his trip worthwhile.
It was not easy for everyone to take out their cameras and take pictures in the big temple to see such a good Tang Dynasty building, so they naturally would not miss the opportunity to take pictures.
Qiu Weijia was tired of seeing everything in the temple for a long time, so when Huo Danjun and the others were talking about it with great interest, he was standing outside the temple, smoking alone.
"In addition to the exquisite design, the materials used are of the highest quality." Ba Pingtao said that he is engaged in architecture and is proficient in this aspect.
"I guess it cost a lot of money to build this temple in the first place."
Qi Weizhuang said: "Before the middle of the Tang Dynasty, Taoism flourished, because the surname of the Tang Dynasty royal family was Li, and the ancestor of Taoism, Li Dan, that is, Lao Tzu, was the same surname, so before the middle of the century, the royal family had always believed in Taoism, so there were many people who believed in Taoism. After the middle of the century, Taoism declined, Buddhism rose, and even the royal family began to believe in Buddhism, and the Buddhist idea of great compassion for relieving suffering and relieving the suffering was more in line with the needs of the common people, so the idea of Buddhism spread very quickly, like the autumn wind sweeping the leaves, and soon spread throughout the country. Buddhist temples have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and the Buddhist temples are powerful enough to make the imperial court red, and there have been several incidents of destroying Buddha in the late Tang Dynasty. ”
"Yes, in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, monasteries occupied vast fields and did not have to pay taxes to the imperial court, and every Buddhist temple was rich at that time. At that time, there were frequent wars, and the common people were hungry and suffered from the war, and many people joined Buddhism and cut their hair to become monks in order to get rid of the sea of suffering. The imperial court destroyed Buddhism in order to compete with Buddhism for land and population. This big temple covers an extremely wide area, from the main hall, the materials are exquisite, the design is exquisite, it should be the building of the middle and late Tang Dynasty. ”…,
Huo Danjun is an elite in their respective fields, and one person can roughly judge the approximate time of the construction of this big temple. If Lin Dong hadn't heard from the old monks in the temple, he would never have seen so many things on his own, and it seems that the special operations team is indeed an elite team.
Qiu Weijia finished smoking a cigarette, and they had no intention of leaving. Qiu Weijia had no choice but to smoke another cigarette and wait slowly.
Huo Danjun and his entourage lingered in the hall for a long time, and Qiu Weijia finished smoking half a pack of cigarettes before they came out.
"Done?" Qiu Weijia asked.
Huo Danjun smiled: "I've seen it, but I haven't seen it through." This hall alone is enough for historians, religious scholars, architects, and art scholars to study for most of their lives. ”
Qiu Weijia's face was surprised, "I really don't see anything unusual, is it so mysterious?" ”
Huo Danjun laughed, "If you don't understand, Xiao Qiu, take us to the back of the main hall and take a look." ”
Qiu Weijia smiled: "Okay, I've been waiting for your words for a long time." ”
After speaking, he threw away the cigarette butt and walked to the back with Huo Danjun and his party.
Going around to the back of the big temple, everyone saw smoke coming out of a collapsed temple from a distance
"Is there a fire ・・・・・・ there?" Sha Yunjuan pointed to the smoking temple road.
Qiu Weijia said with a smile: "Don't panic, everyone, it's not a fire, it's like this all year round." The place had long since collapsed, and I hadn't been in it, so I don't know why it kept smoking. ”
Everyone's curiosity paused, and Zhong Yunan asked, "Xiao Qiu, can you take us there to have a look?" ”
Qiu Weijia looked embarrassed and said: "Everyone, it's not that I don't want to, but that temple is too dangerous, it's a dangerous house, in case something happens to someone, I can't explain it to Lin Dong!" ”。 )